by Vladimir Nabokov
I came to a strange realization while reading this book: that practically every instance I can think of where an author used an unreliable narrator, it's always the same character: he's an intelligent, introspective guy with a slight cynical mean streak, a man with a fairly high opinion of himself (...
bookshelves: fraudio, published-1969, slavic, autumn-2013, amusing, families, incest-agameforallthefamily, fantasy, spring-2015, tbr-busting-2015, lit-richer, classic Read from August 14, 2013 to March 10, 2015 Description: Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one...
There's no "or" about this book: it's Ada and ardour, and it's genius. All right, I'll admit that Mr Nabokov takes some getting into. Accessible he ain't. Delicious, however, delicious he is and this is like a perfect bread pudding: layers coming together to create something you don't know you'll ...
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The Proustiest Proust that ever did Nabokov. He lost me...
Ada or Ardor is Nabokov's biggest novel, and in many ways a summation of his linguistic dexterity as well as his literary themes, with all the pleasures and problems those things imply.His writing is a constant astonishment. His admirers are sometimes surprised to remember that it's not to everyone'...
It started promising but somewhere towards the middle I lost my appetite and I started reading other stuff instead. It is just not fair to me or the book to prolong this situation. I really hope to get back to it one day, because I really love N.'s prose and I feel that somehow I'm going to like thi...
Suppose things had worked out better for Humbert Humbert. Suppose he'd gone to jail for a while but hadn't had a heart attack there, and suppose Lolita hadn't died while still a teenager, giving birth to a stillborn child. Suppose instead that they'd both survived, had various sordid adventures, and...
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